Ebba Atterbom

Ebba Gustava Augusta Atterbom (19 January 1868 – 23 August 1961) was a Swedish translator and educator. She was the first person to translate the work of Irish novelist James Joyce into Swedish.

From about 1927, Atterbom established herself as a translator. Apart from translating from Italian, she also translated works in English, Norwegian, and Danish to Swedish. Her translated works from English included works by H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, and James Joyce. In 1921, she translated Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Among her translations from Italian was Andrea Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura. She translated 100 lektioner i italienska from Danish. After the death of her father in 1937, she returned to Gothenburg and continued teaching language studies. In 1959, she was awarded the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity in recognition of her contributions in Italian to the literature of Sweden.

Atterbom died in Gothenburg, on 23 August 1961.